rickets

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket

Concepten

rachitis

Engelse ziekte

rickets

Synoniemen

rachitis

consumption

scurvy

malnutrition

Glisson’s disease

Vertalingen

rachitisme

Rachitis

raquitismo

raquitismo

rachitismo

rachitide

كساح

raşitizm

raquitis

raquitisme

englische Krankheit

rachitis

rickettsia

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈɹɪkɪts/

Etymologie (Engels)

Unknown. Originally a local name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England. Occasionally postulated to be derived from a Dorsetian dialectal term *rucket (“to breathe with difficulty, wheeze”), but the semantic connection is tenuous. See rachitis, but the medical name was chosen purposefully by English physician Daniel Whistler from phonetic similarity to rickets.